Sharp County record., 1887-04-28

COLONEL EUGENE CARR of the Sixth
cavalry. is a candidate for appointment
as Brigadier- General on the retlremento OF
General o. B. Wilcox.
ONE of the most exciting scenes ever
witnes sed in Scotland occurred on the
l4th at Ayr, during Mr.. Chamberlain's
bitter speech against the Irish. Strong
threats were made at him.
A CLAsu has occurred between the State
| and Federal courts at Augusta, Me-, be-
cause of an effort to enforce the new liquor
law in opposition TO internal revenue
| regulations.
BREADsTUFF exports from the United
States during March past aggregated Sl4'
99S66S, against s11, 1850, in March,
| 1886.
SECOND AUDITOR DAY, Of Illinois, 1t is
said, w II be promoted to the position Of
Second Comptroller of the Treasury to
succeed Judge Maynard, recently made
assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
In the advertisement columns OF the
London Daily Ne,cs, on the 14th, appeared q
protest against the Coercion bill, signed
| by 32, ,0O0 non-conformist ministers.
THE Treasury Department has refused
to accept trade dollars in payment OF
dues. Although these coins are Temporal
rily receivable in exchange for standard
dollars, the department says they are de-
prived by law of any legal-tender quality
THE National drill committee has organ
lied bureau of inform alton and comfort
for the benefit of visitors. Mr.. Frank +.
Madigan, in charge Of the bureau, an
nounces that he is prepared to furnish
gratuitously all information on the SUBJ
ject.
MICHAEL KEEFE, the wife murderer, who
was to be hangel on the 18Th at Sulsln
Cal, cut his throat with a pocket-knlfe on
the 14th, resisted the efforts OF the doctor
to dress the wound, and died
DURING the absence of the parents on
the night of the 18th, RAYMOND Shay aged
five years, of Lebanon, Pa, lighted STICK
at the stove aud set fire to the clothing OF
his brother Ernest aged two years. Be-
fore assistance could be rendered Ernest
was burned to death.
The Navy Department has been in
formed that Pay Clerk Chas. A. Gibson,
of the Ossipee, disappeared mysterously
on March % from the Norfolk Navy Yard,
since which time nothing has been heard
as to his whereabouts. His accounts are
found to be correct. He leaves wife
and child in Was hingtOn.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has awarded to
the Bethlehem Iron Works Company Of
Pennsylvania the contracts for furnish
ing about !, 400 tons of steel gun forging
and 1850 tons Of steel armor plates at a
total cost of Si,512,93S Its bid, though
not the lowest for the gun steel, was the
lowest in the aggregate for the two con-
tracts.
THREE domestlcs employed at the Cen
trail hotel at Allegheny City, Pa, were
ute seriously injured by the fall of an
elevator on the l4th. The girls were
going to the third floor, when the rope
broke and the cage dropped to the cellar,
distance of about forty feet. The names
of the girls could not be learned, as the
landlord would give no information.
THE school building at Loveland, O., was
totally destroyed by fire on the 14th. The
children were rescued with difficulty, so
rapidly did the flames spread. All the
uniforms, ammunition and accoutrements
of Company B, Thirteenth regiment, o. n.
G., were destroyed.
DURING the debate in the British House
of Commons on the 14th James Redmond
explained his speech delivered before the
Chicago convention of the Natior5al
League, on which he had been sewers :
criticised by Mr.. Chamberlain in the
speech of the latter at Ayr, Scotland.
EARL SPENCER, formerly Lord-Lieuten-
ant of Ireland, on arriving at Truro on the
l4th, en- route to Plymouth, was greeted
by 10000 persons and presented with an
address of welcome He replied in a
speech, in the course of which he con-
demned the governments Irish policy
and advocated home rule.
BUFFALO BILLS Wild West company ar
rived in London on the 14th, having had
pleasant voyage. The troupe and stock
were landed in excellent condition, AMI
were the objects of much interest to those
who witnessed the debarkatioD.